Thursday, January 28, 2021

Extend the American dreamscape to citizens of all races!

Joel Kotkin writes in the American Mind that woke politics are a disaster for minorities in America.
Minorities make up over 40% of the nation’s working class and will constitute the majority by 2032.
Just as traditional liberalism has stopped benefitting the majority of workers, the new progressive version seems likely to fail even more spectacularly. A Biden Administration may coo more and say the “right” things, but it is unlikely to replicate the remarkable success, pre-COVID, of the Trump years, where minority unemployment hit record lows and the incomes of the least grew faster, for the first time in decades, than those of the upper classes. Indeed in a host of areas—starting with energy policy—the Administration embraces blue state priorities that often work against minority uplift and leave most abandoned on the edges of our society.
Read more here.

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